BBC transparency

Exactly Conni7

Ooh wait a minute, sorry, we're you being serious?

He's a red faced , once ginger winger now white shite mouth piece with a giant ego and pots of money who talks rubbish on The radio 2 breakfast show. He used to present the One show a while back too.

.... And I'm his biggest fan

Who is Chris Evans?

I used to work as a conference manager and had the "privilege" of booking a number of TV personalities for different events. One or two of them were lovely (Moira Stuart, John Culshaw come to mind) while others were a pain in the bum ( "I can't possibly go on the beach in these shoes, they're Chanel") despite being paid a 5 figure sum for 3 days work. The pay they get at the BBC is just the tip of a very lucrative iceberg.

Can't believe that the person on the list I would say provides the least value (Chris Evans) gets the most money!

I guess it will cause many problems amongst the BBC staff themselves. The important issue for me is the discrimination it has shown up. Jane Garvey is pretty peeved about the pay of long serving Woman's Hour presenters & Sarah Montague (12 yrs on Today) has grounds for being so as she does not make the list whereas more recent male arrivals on Today do.
The Beeb's many faults need to be challenged & the original remit for a public service broadcaster asserted, but I would not be without the BBC, especially Radio 4. Just seeing what's on offer abroad make me accept it, warts & all.

I heard that too Nfk It stinks and laughs in the face of those who struggle to pay their license fees.

What annoyed me was that before the list was announced both Chris Evans and Gary Linniker said they loved their jobs so much the money wasn't important! They weren't concerned with how much they earned. Twaddle! If that's true they can both take a 90% pay cut!

Grrrrrr indeed jevive and there's not a damned thing we can do about it!

Grrrrrrrr!

The BBC used to offer training in tv related skills and my friend trained as a makep artist. Now there is no training that I know of generally available. 700,000 pounds for Jeremy Vine to do Eggheads and one radio show. It is shameful. Jeremy Corbyn suggests a cao at 325000. Sounds generous to me but it would be a start. And why should we be concerned that Claudia Winkleman earns 500,000 pounds because Chris Evans gets 2 million...they are both obscenely overpaid. I would dearly love to be able to opt out of the BBC licence and happy to miss the few good progs they have.

I think the salaries disclosure was too simplistic because it wasn't expressed in like-for-like terms. There was much resentment when it was revealed that the male presenter (no idea of his name) on BBC Breakfast is paid way more than Louise Minchin even though they share the presenting equally but he might do other presenting or more work behind the scenes than she does. Until we know like-for-like, we can't judge. It's certainly against the law for an employer to pay less to a woman for equivalent work.

sorry, 'compete'!

I'd be happy to see the end of the BBC and the licence fee because they are no longer a Public Broadcasting Company but just a left wing media machine. Let them go commercial and show ads and complete with the rest of the channels- I never pay attention to any of the ads anyway so another channel that shows them won't bother me.

I'm always available (for radio work) widgeon see my earlier post.

Aaah Haa you have outed yourself womble I guess you watch for the wonderful scenery then?

I don't have a TV or a TV licence. The BBC is disgracefully politically biased and ageist, and we shouldn't be forced to pay a licence fee in order to watch any telly at all. (I do go to someone else's house to watch Poldark though!)

Now that the payments made to the top BBC 'talent' have been announced, maybe we can rest assured that commercial companies, amazed at how little they are paid, will make immediate enhanced bids for the lot of them.
Then we could start again
For starters, My dustbin men , whatever the weather and their ages, are smiling, pleasant, friendly and funny. Perhaps new talent could be recruited from such sources

I would hazard a guess at a fair bit less than Mr Evans gets for talking about himself on the radio lovebeige.

I think I might have made a good DJ too. Well I like talking cr*p, love music and have what you might call a "radio face".

I don't know why this appeared on the wrong thread. I went to "Add comment" from the right thread.

Nice work if you can get it. I would have loved to have been a radio DJ but have only ever had fairly lowly jobs. Somehow I can't help thinking that I chose the wrong path in life.
I wonder how much the average brain surgeon earns?

Teetime When I was a new editor of a Gransnet Local page I mentioned it at a hobby group I went to - all people of at least 50, most of them much more. The apathetic silence was deafening, apart from one (man) who said "We don't want to hear a lot of people going on about their grandchildren." I told them about all the other things that are discussed but the image of a crowd of old women gossiping was too strong.

I don't think it is easy to change the name of an organisation overnight though. All the paperwork, all the marketing, all the business and journalist connections, all of it are in the name of Gransnet.

gillybob Thu 20-Jul-17 11:55:23

They are all cringe-worthy!! EM was funny because of it and made me laugh.

Oh thank goodness I didn't hear him Ana . My ears hurt just thinking about it.

The bit where the various callers were flushing their loos was quite funny and I admit to having a giggle just imagining the Wallace and Grommet style faces, EM would have been pulling.

gillybob - IDS also presented the J Vine show - he was even worse and I had to turn him off after a touple of minutes...

whitewave I think you have hit the nail on the head re the Murdoch bid for Sky. Heaven help us if he gets it.

More pressure on the BBC in terms of what is paid to presenters and entertainers, plus preventing it from competing with commercial channels on "light entertainment" programmes will surely see the demise of the BBC - at least in its present form - within 10 years or so.

Then see how the cost of watching subscription TV sky rockets - as has everything else once state provision is out of the picture.

What worries me and what I suspect is that these huge amounts of payments -and don't forget there are many not listed because of the way these people are paid- is that quality of programmes suffer as a result as a result of these inflated payments. play-writes, comedy writers etc appear to have been sacrificed to a greater or lesser extent imo to these prima donnas.